From the Outsell Now blog posting on the US NIH plan and the UK report: "In Outsell's opinion, the funding question is the key to the success of open access. Until the foundations and public agencies that fund research fully commit to footing the bill for open access publication as part of their funding matrix, open access won't really take off. Both of these actions are a strong step in that direction, but 'show me the money' is the name of the game." (PS: Clearly money helps. But Outsell must distinguish OA publishing, in journals, from OA archiving. In the case of OA archiving, the focus of both the US and UK plans, funding-agency money is less important than funding-agency policies to condition research grants on a willingness to archive the results.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/27/2004 11:02:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
